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People Are Making New Games For 30-Year-Old Consoles

Yep, that’s a game where you shoot Bowser with a Doom-style shotgun, in a Virtual Boy, the system that was so awkward it gave people migraines. When these guys say they’re only doing this because they love it, they aren’t exaggerating. These guys have been around for a while, but Animal recently interviewed the people…

The Final Fantasy Type-0 Fan Translation Comes Out In August

The story of Final Fantasy Type-0 is long and depressing: released for PSP in 2011, Square Enix’s role-playing game never made it outside of Japan, despite being announced at E3 in North America, and for years now, fans have been wondering whether we’ll ever get to play it in English. (Adding insult to injury: I’ve…

An Elaborate New Vegas Mod That Lets You Play As The Enclave

Modders are kind of the best. Case in point: this amazing New Vegas mod which adds another joinable faction in the game. And not just any faction, mind you—it’s the Enclave The mod—called “For The Enclave”—was made by Otellino and CNC. It took three years to make, and you can tell just by looking at…

Double Humble, PSN Cash, Yoshi 3DS XL, Murdered: Soul Suspect [Deals]

Bonus credit offers are some our favorites. Spend $60 on PSN by March 18 and get $10 back. Put that together with the Spring Fever 2014 Sale which is better with your Playstation Plus membership, and Sony Rewards for an ultra combo. [Sony] Amazon is raising the price of Amazon Prime by $20 per year,…

Titanfall on Xbox One Versus PC

Debating between two of the available versions of Titanfall? Maybe seeing the graphical differences between the Xbox One and the PC version will help. This video by IGN gives us a glimpse what Titanfall looks like on both platforms, though for those of you interested in stills, you should go here. A small taste: Xbox…

Eight Minutes Of New Footage From Infamous: Second Son

The PS4’s first big exclusive is out next week, and here’s some shiny new footage to celebrate, featuring superpowers, exploding vehicles, and haters. Infamous: Second Son is out next Friday. PS4 only.

Here’s a new developer diary for Alien: Isolation, which comes out later this year for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.

Meet The First Gamer To Get One Million Achievement Points

Well, he’s done it. After years of work and more video games than you’ve probably played in your entire life, Stallion83 has become the first person in the world to achieve a Gamerscore of 1,000,000. As you can see below, at the end of a marathon session in the home stretch, he stopped the clock…

Come See Kotaku At PAX East

Dear friends, frenemies, straight-up bad guys, and anyone else who reads Kotaku—if you are headed to Boston for PAX East next month, be sure to catch our panel: Kotaku’s Incredible Fantastic Panel Extravaganza XVIII-2. We’ll be hanging out, talking about video games, taking questions, and maybe even bringing some surprises—if you’ve ever wanted to see…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pro-Tips For Game Collecting • References and Symbolism: A Rant • Muv-Luv: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

The HD upgrade for Mirror of Fate—which originally came out for the 3DS— will be getting an upcoming Steam release later this month. The second game in Castlevania‘s Lords of Shadow offshoot precedes for the just released Lords of Shadow 2

If Sony had a Playstation All-Stars racer, similar to Sonic & Sega All-Star Racing and Mario Kart, it’d probably look like this. The creators, Max and Leonardo, pretty much included everyone, as you can see in the full pic below. This would be Wacky Races level of chaotic racing. Dayshot is an image-based feature that…

Coming Soon…Kotaku UK!

If you live in the U.K., you’re about to get your very own version of Kotaku. The good people at Future Publishing are partnering with our team at Gawker Media to launch Kotaku UK. World domination continues! The new site will launch in a few weeks and will be helmed by longtime British games reporter…

Game of Thrones Cast Members Test The Oculus Rift

The Wall that protects the Seven Kingdoms in Game of Thrones came alive at SXSW 2014 with the help of Oculus Rifts. Three cast members were there to promote the show and try the headset out, but one of them couldn’t control her emotions and panicked. Also, skip to 1:35 for the magnificent Dj Hodor.…

Yep, Among the Sleep is still hair-raisingly scary, and there’s a new trailer to prove it. The surreal survival horror-themed toddler simulator is still on track for its Spring release date, by the way. Can’t wait to see more reaction videos on YouTube.

One Kerbal Player Launched The Silliest Car in History Into Space

Unmanned, of course. Because putting living beings inside a Reliant Robin, even if it’s upgraded for space travel, is just irresponsible. In case you’re not familiar with the Reliant Robin, here’s a video from British motoring series Top Gear to get you started: Now, the fascinating thing about the Kerbal Space Program recreation of the…

Lego Titanfall Titans by bouysmm and Nick Jensen

The Perfect Game For Anyone Who Hates Their Desk Job

There’s little to love about being stuck in a cubicle, forced to wear a tie and slave under the whims of someone whose job has “manager” somewhere in the title. Sometimes you need to vent. Maybe play a game where you destroy everything in the office Corporate Lifestyle Simulator is not a corporate lifestyle simulator.…

SimCity Was A Disaster, So One Man Is Trying To Make A Better Game

Of all SimCity’s faults, the biggest was that, even when it was working, it was a very poor city simulator. Things essential to your planning – transport, land value, etc – seemed like they were either busted or running in a fantasy land. Where most of us simply made sad faces, though, Anselm Eickhoff rolled…

The Web Used To Fit On A Single Floppy Disk

Like most sites, the very first webpage ever created, back in 1989, no longer exists. But one of its immediate successors does. At the Hypertext 91 conference in San Antonio, creator Tim Berners-Lee took what he then called the “World Wide Web”, set up a demo in the conference hall and showed people the future.…